MDMD(4) p.123 small re-write

[Vaska]

Matthew P Wiener responds to my query re. Eric's mention of Arcadia: 
 
>>>This also made me think of a Tom Stoppard play, Arcadia, in which
>>>one of the principal characters dreams of a math complex enough to
>>>explain real-world forms---a tree, a flower, a hillside [....]
>
>>Isn't this one of the things those chaos theory people are trying to do?
>
>Yes.  Tom Stoppard is quite explicit about this in his play.

True: but is there someone on the list who knows a great deal more about
this than either I or Tom Stoppard, that's the question.  Because it would
be nice to have some intelligible light thrown on this topic [intelligible
to lay people like myself, that is], especially now that we're reading _M&D_
where "science" seems to come under so much criticism.  

Vaska